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...police their volatile countrymen and firm up plans for the political and economic administration of the Gaza Strip and Jericho, the first territories they are to take over. Last week the mood at headquarters was subdued, reflecting concern among senior staffers that the organization is ill prepared to transform itself from a revolutionary cadre into a working government. Palestinians wonder among themselves if they are really ready. "We thought of everything except ruling," muses a senior P.L.O. official in Jordan. "I tell my colleagues that we need a transition period to prepare ourselves for a ruling mentality...
Oedipus Rex. By Sophocles. If you thought you knew this script, think again. Immerse yourself in Oedipus and Jocasta's surreal and supernatural world and feel their fates unfold. Sound, light and movement transform this classical piece into a frightening and gripping saga of two destinies. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m. Free...
Oedipus Rex. By Sophocles. If you thought you knew this script, think again. Immerse yourself in Oedipus and Jocasta's surreal and supernatural world and feel their fates unfold. Sound, light and movement transform this classical piece into a frightening and gripping saga of two destinies. Loeb EX, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Free...
...danger is not that a new post-Wasp personality will emerge. A nation's character is not so mutable; it takes major upheaval -- revolution, conquest -- to transform it. What is possible, however, is that the character America already possesses will slip into chronic malfunction. Most of us will keep behaving the way we always have, without knowing why, while the rest will act differently, simply for the sake of being different. It is a sad end for an ideal -- especially for one that has been as fruitful as the Wasp...
...Irish had a gift for mutual self-help and taking care of their own. Out of this instinct, manifest in America's dozens of "little Dublins," emerged institutions, like New York City's notorious Tammany Hall, that would transform the quality and character of urban politics in America. As early as 1852, the immigrant vote (principally Irish) was so important that Winfield Scott, the staunchly Protestant Whig candidate for President, ecumenically attended Sunday Mass on campaign visits to New York. Some 210,000 Irish fought during the Civil War, 170,000 of them on the Union side...